[Ancestor] Smiley

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Husband [Ancestor] Smiley

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            AKA: Thomas Smiley,1 William Smiley 2 3
           Born:  - ? Scotland
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           Died:  - ? Pennsylvania
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Wife

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Children

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1 M John Smiley ²

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2 M Thomas "Uncle Tom" Smiley ^{4 5 6 7 8}

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           Born: Bef 1799 - near Philadelphia, PA
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           Died: Abt 1824 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA
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         Spouse: Mary Duffield (1783/1784-1830) 4 5 6 8

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3 M James Smiley ^{2 9}

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           Died: 13 Jan 1840 - Union City, Erie Co, PA 9
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         Spouse: Margaret Kirkpatrick (      -1849) 9
           Marr: 1800 - near Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 9

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Smiley

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There is conflicting information on the earliest American generations of this family.

William Smiley was a descendant of John Smylie, barrister, who lived in Dublin, Ireland, in the seventeenth century, and the coat of arms confirmed by the Crown through Sir William Retham, knight deputy of Ulster, King of Arms in 1815, and duly recorded, was conferred upon his ancestors. He [William Smiley] emigrated from Scotland to America about the middle of the eighteenth century and settled near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His wife's name is unknown. Children: John, settled in Car-lisle, Pennsylvania, and founded the Cumber-land branch of the family, many of his de-scendants still living in Cumberland and Perry counties, Pennsylvania; Thomas; James, [GPHAV, 729]

This family is of Scotch origin. The first immigrants of the name are said to have arrived in New England about the same time and settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts. One of them at least, John Smiley, remained there and was the progenitor of the Smileys of that city. Francis Smiley, emigrant ancestor of the Maine family, was born in the north of Ireland, in 1689, and came to America with others of his family about 1727. He did not settle in Maine, but in 1743 is first found in Windham, New Hampshire, where he lived until his death, March 16, 1763. He married Agnes Wilson and had three sons, William, David and Hugh, who settled in Maine.
Thomas Smiley, direct progenitor of the Smileys of Bradford, Pennsylvania, is sup-posed to have been a brother of Francis. His ancestors emigrated from Scotland to the north of Ireland, where Thomas was born, near Londonderry, about the time of the close of that famous siege. He came to America, in 1727, and settled in northern New England, supposedly Maine or New Hampshire. He married, and among his children were three sons: Thomas, founder of the Venango County family; Charles, founder of the Perry County, Pennsylvania, family; and James. [GPHAV, 191]

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 192.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 483.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 729.

4 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 198.

5 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1010.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 483, 758.

7 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 131.

8 —, The Duffield Family; A Sketch of William Duffield, of Venango County, PA, and His Descendents (PA: The William Duffield Association, 1905), Pg 23.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 730.